# Problem
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/problem/216190
**Category:** Beats
**Created:** [January 23, 2020, 7:12am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/problem/216190 "2020-01-23T07:12:10Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@alxfernando](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/alxfernando)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2020, 7:12am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/problem/216190/1 "2020-01-23T07:12:10Z")
Hi
I have a doubt, I want to analyze some logs that are not formatted, plain text with timestamp and ip addresses, among many other data, I have used logstash to load the data to elastisearch, but I found that logstash consumes many resources, so I I would like to know if filebeat can be configured to collect log of specific folders and plain text.
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### Author:  [@grumo35](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/grumo35)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2020, 8:23am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/problem/216190/2 "2020-01-23T08:23:41Z")
Yes of course, you can forward to ES with filebeat and logfile path.
[https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/filebeat/current/filebeat-configuration.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/filebeat/current/filebeat-configuration.html)
You can also use processors to parse data but it's not as powerfull as logstash
[https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/filebeat/current/defining-processors.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/filebeat/current/defining-processors.html)
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2020, 10:32am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/problem/216190/3 "2020-02-20T10:32:17Z")
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